Woo hoo! something I am going to keep bumping to the top of the page today until the troll threads are moved to the butt where they belong. Thanks again for this and I hope my boy Archer is on this one and okay my faux hubby Khan too.

SoCal is such a joke with his Bowlen hate. I stopped listening at the point where he refused to give him any credit for the current state of the Broncos.

Had to shut her down after minute 4:45. Bowlen has had his personal issues but he has certainly stepped aside from the microphone, been cutting the checks, made the bold move to toss his buddy shanny, and bring in John.

Bowlen has been a consistent owner over the years and it's reflected in a consistently good Broncos team. Look across the league at teams like Bills, Browns, Lions, Cardinals, Cowboys, Bucs, Dolphins. They all suffer from some form of poor management at that top.

Bowlen is right up there with Arthur Blank, Jeffrey Lurie, and the Rooney's. Shanahan was starting to lose the team. It can happen after 14 seasons. Players get tired of the message. You can only fire so many defensive coordinators before pointing the finger at yourself. In hindsight, JMCD was a terrible decision, but Pat went for a young OC from a hot team and I'm sure Josh talked a good game in the interview. You have to commend Bowlen for cutting the cord so quickly once we all knew he wasn't the right guy.

This 7th SB trip is happening because he made some great personnel decisions at the executive level. Elway landed Manning. Fox and Del Rio have righted the ship (even though I still think Fox is too conservative - we're in the Fkn SB!).

That's fine with me. I don't agree with SoCal on Bowlen, but I do agree with him on just about all of his views where the actual game is concerned. I don't feel like I need to agree with everyone on everything to give them a fair hearing.

I should have left it alone, but SoCal fascinates me. His takes mean a lot to me not only because of his tremendous knowledge, but because he carries the emotion of the game in his heart like very few fans do. It's awesome. He's easily one of my favorite people in the world.

SoCal is good people. He loves the Broncos, and specific Broncos like family. He really felt like when Bowlen fired Shanahan he was firing a good friend. I can appreciate that. It's too bad his ridiculously negative opinion on Bowlen clouded over peoples' ability to enjoy the podcast. You'd think in a year where Bowlen has been able to put us back into the Super Bowl that would alleviate some of the disdain, or at the very least made him keep quiet about it. Oh well.

He's one guy, folks. And the rest of the takes are pretty good. You could always just fast forward to ten minutes after it starts. It's not like Mike spends the entire podcast Bowlen-bashing.

Woo hoo! something I am going to keep bumping to the top of the page today until the troll threads are moved to the butt where they belong. Thanks again for this and I hope my boy Archer is on this one and okay my faux hubby Khan too.

is there a way to subscribe to the podcast? I can't seem to just get the thing to download to my Ipad directly so I don't have to be connected to the net so I was trying to download it via my laptop to ITunes which is being a pain the ass so I saw podcast thing that says I can subscribe to stuff. Does this podcast have such a mechanism?

is there a way to subscribe to the podcast? I can't seem to just get the thing to download to my Ipad directly so I don't have to be connected to the net so I was trying to download it via my laptop to ITunes which is being a pain the ass so I saw podcast thing that says I can subscribe to stuff. Does this podcast have such a mechanism?

okay so I just gave up and listened to it in my apartment while baking instead of downstairs in the garage washing the car. I will go listen to heavy metal while washing the damn road salt from the snow off.

anyway, while I think SoCal's inability to acknowlege Bowlen's contribution to righting the ship and the clear hand he had in bringing John back into the fold is bullheaded and aggratvating, I still find the rest of his football knowledge and discussion extremely entertaining. I for one am only holding on here for a few reason, one of which is this podcast. I am sorry the others bailed on it because they missed a very good discussion. My hope is we will actually get more of these next year. It doesn't seem like they are weekly (ahem, ahem).

At any rate, good work all. Thank you for entertaining me during my lemon bar baking. I only wish there were more to get me through the cheesecake I need to make tonight and the car washing, But a girl can't be greedy.

And hey has anyone noticed how the front page of the Mane spends most of its time b****ing about the trolls, feeding the trolls, b****ing about other Bronco fans whose fandom they hold in question (possibly accurate but who cares). Is all of this a way to deal with the nerves of going to the biggest game? Are those b****es projecting? Is this behaviour one of the three or 4 or however many stages of insanity once defined so eloquently (sarcasm here) by MacGruber (it was MacGruber right?).

Oh I did have an actual question, does anyone recall discussions about how Elway and Shanny had tense relationship since his retirement and that Elway didn't rengage until Josh McDaniels started inviting him to practice and such? I seem to recall that which makes me wonder if for all the stupidity Josh did, maybe at least he left us that, if unintentionally. (even a broken clock is right twice a day unless its miltary time and then just STFU and follow orders..heh)